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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: "But that's saying so little, dear boy!"
"Seriously, Beverly."
"Oh, hang it with your 'seriously'! Well, then, seriously, melodrama was
the correct ticket and all that in 1840, but we've outgrown it; it's
devilish demode to chuck things in people's faces.
"I'm not sorry John Mayrant did it!" I brought out his name with due
emphasis.
"All the same," Beverly was beginning, when the automobile returned
rapidly upon us, and, guessing the cause of this, he waved the parasol.
Charley descended to get it--an unnecessary act, prompted, I suppose, by
the sudden relief of finding that it was not lost.
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